"The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon."
"The DHS request for the Pentagon to house comes a week after the Defense Department was asked to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied alien migrant children. All told, the Pentagon has now been asked to house 32,000 migrants, 2,000 beginning in the next 45 days."
"The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk."
While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries."
"The memo says the camps would be built on abandoned airfields in California, Alabama, and Arizona."
"At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results."
"Price increases are 'clearly a result of antisocial behavior by participants in the industry,' he said."
"Under slavery, children were sold separately from their parents. The separation of children from their parents was also imposed on native American Indians."
"Now the FBI has managed to anger both major political parties and much of the country. It's demonstrated its capacity for political meddling and misuse of power—even if people disagree on who was on the receiving end. That offers a rare opportunity to pull the plug on a dangerously powerful agency at a moment when its potential for bias, arrogance, insubordination, and plain incompetence are on public display. Let's kill the FBI while we can."
"There were two big temptations to the American Republic of the 1950s; subsequent generations gave in to both of them."